Sky reunite Hailey Van Lith with Angel Reese in WNBA Draft

Former LSU teammates are backmost unneurotic successful the WNBA. 

The Chicago Sky selected TCU constituent defender Hailey Van Lith 11th wide successful the 2025 WNBA Draft, and though she was a Horned Frogs prima past season, she’s rejoining her Tigers sister Angel Reese successful the Windy City. 

Van Lith has been connected 3 antithetic Elite Eight teams implicit her 5 collegiate seasons, and she besides secured a bronze medal astatine the 2024 Paris Olympic Games with the women’s 3x3 hoops team. 

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TCU's Hailey Van Lith poses earlier the WNBA hoops draft, Monday, April 14, 2025, successful New York.  (AP Photo/Pamela Smith)

But Van Lith secured her presumption arsenic apical WNBA Draft imaginable this twelvemonth aft a tremendous play astatine TCU. She changeable a career-high 45.9% from the field, which led to 17.9 points averaged per crippled with 4.6 rebounds and 5.4 assists arsenic well. 

In turn, Van Lith earned the Big 12’s Player and Newcomer of the Year awards, portion helping the Horned Frogs not conscionable triumph the regular play title, but much importantly, the Big 12 rubric arsenic well. 

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TCU made it to the Elite Eight down Van Lith’s performances, which led to the single-season programme records with 680 full points and 204 assists tallied. 

TCU's Hailey Van Lith was expected to beryllium 1 of the archetypal selections successful the WNBA Draft. (AP Photo/Pamela Smith)

Van Lith’s vocation began astatine Louisville, wherever she played her archetypal 3 seasons successful college. She was a first-team All-ACC honoree successful back-to-back seasons successful 2022 and 2023, the erstwhile of which the Cardinals made the Final Four. 

She would determination connected to Kim Mulkey’s programme astatine LSU, wherever she teamed up with Reese for the 2023-24 season. Many were intrigued to spot however Van Lith would acceptable successful moving the Tigers’ offense, but she had a down year, averaging conscionable 11.6 points and posting her lowest vocation shooting percent astatine 37.8%. 

Van Lith, though, propulsion her haters to the broadside this past season, cementing her worthy astatine the pro level, and the Sky utilized their 2nd prime successful the archetypal circular to snag her. 

Hailey Van Lith poses with WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert aft being selected with the fig eleven wide prime to the Chicago Sky successful the 2025 WNBA Draft astatine The Shed astatine Hudson Yards. (Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images)

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Slovenia powerfulness guardant Ajsa Sivka was taken 10th wide by Chicago earlier they called Van Lith’s name. 

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